Mission accomplished
For years, Republican Senate Intelligence chair Tom Coburn has been sitting on/stalling the SSCI's Phase II Iraq report looking at the use and misuse of intelligence by administration figures in the run up to the war.
Well, Phase II finally came out (NYTimes, WaPo,) and its conclusion that should shock the conscience, that top administration officials including the president knowingly misrepresented the intelligence, is now such "old news" that it's been buried off the front pages.
Wow.
Two more bits. 1) McClatchy pulls out an important bit looking at Michael Ledeen's meetings with Manucher Ghorbanifar to point to suspicions in the report that Rumsfeld's "Office of Special Plans" and Cheney's intelligence operations were the victims of an Iranian intelligence operation to supply false intelligence to pull the US into war.
2) As far as I can tell, the Niger forgeries are not even discussed.
Well, Phase II finally came out (NYTimes, WaPo,) and its conclusion that should shock the conscience, that top administration officials including the president knowingly misrepresented the intelligence, is now such "old news" that it's been buried off the front pages.
Wow.
Two more bits. 1) McClatchy pulls out an important bit looking at Michael Ledeen's meetings with Manucher Ghorbanifar to point to suspicions in the report that Rumsfeld's "Office of Special Plans" and Cheney's intelligence operations were the victims of an Iranian intelligence operation to supply false intelligence to pull the US into war.
2) As far as I can tell, the Niger forgeries are not even discussed.
posted by mikevotes at
6:46 AM
4 Comments:
The new normal, as you said.
It's kind of sickening if you think about how far the moral center of America has fallen since Watergate. Then we were outraged; the people and the institutions. Now it's a greater "sin" to be accused of being non-Christian than it is to lie a nation into war.
Did I mention I'm going to Canada this summer?
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-epm, at 7:28 AM
Lovely country. A little too cold for me.
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mikevotes, at 7:49 AM
Yeah. I'm heading to Newfoundland where the average daily temp in August is 68ºF. That's a bit cool for summer, even by NH standards...
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-epm, at 9:49 AM
It's wonderful in the summer.... That sounds absolutely wonderful.
I just don't think I could winter there.
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mikevotes, at 10:44 AM
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